West Virginia's state Senate has approved an abortion ban at 20 weeks' pregnancy, as the state House of Delegates did earlier, and by hefty margins likely to withstand a possible veto. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, vetoed a similar measure last year, when his fellow Democrats controlled the state Senate and the House of Delegates. Lawmakers had adjourned and could not try to override it. This year, with Republicans in control of the Legislature, the bill passed the Senate by the same vote as last year, 29-5; and the House of Delegates approved it by an even larger margin, 87-12. The ban is based on the premise that fetuses feel pain at 20 weeks,...

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West Virginia's state Senate has approved an abortion ban at 20 weeks' pregnancy, as the state House of Delegates did earlier, and by hefty margins likely to withstand a possible veto.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, vetoed a similar measure...

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Senators approved the ban Wednesday. The House of Delegates passed it overwhelmingly earlier this month.
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